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A Unique Bosonic Symmetry in a 4D Field-Theoretic System

R. P. Malik

In 4D Abelian gauge theories a unique bosonic symmetry is built from four off-shell nilpotent BRST transformations when all four Curci-Ferrari restrictions hold.

arxiv:2512.15540 v4 · 2025-12-17 · hep-th

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C1strongest claim

We show the existence of a unique bosonic symmetry transformation that is constructed from the four infinitesimal, continuous and off-shell nilpotent symmetry transformations which exist for the BRST quantized versions of the coupled Lagrangian densities.

C2weakest assumption

The proof of the uniqueness of the above bosonic symmetry transformation operator crucially depends on the validity of all the four Curci-Ferrari type restrictions that exist on our theory.

C3one line summary

A unique bosonic symmetry transformation exists in the 4D Abelian 3-form plus 1-form gauge theory system, built from BRST, co-BRST, anti-BRST and anti-co-BRST operators when all four Curci-Ferrari restrictions hold.

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First computed	2026-06-04T01:08:38.036608Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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588b7d85cbbd79a57d08bc49113c73e2184f2a613bc59c5135b02c51a5b14194

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arxiv: 2512.15540 · arxiv_version: 2512.15540v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.15540 · pith_short_12: LCFX3BOLXV42 · pith_short_16: LCFX3BOLXV42K7II · pith_short_8: LCFX3BOL

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